Crispin Tickell

Sir Crispin Tickell, Coldstream Guards, diplomat, Ambassador to Mexico and the United Nations during the 1991 Gulf War.

Sir Crispin was warden of Green College, Oxford between 1990 and 1997, when he made George Monbiot a fellow.

Tickell wrote Margaret Thatcher's speech on global climate change (Thatcher, The Downing Street Years, 690).

Tickell was chair of John Major's Sustainable development Panel in 1994, and a member of Sir Richard Rogers Urban Task Force. He was a spokesman for the Optimum Population Trust during their controversial conference (Observer, 28 July 2003)


 * Chairman, Climate Institute (Chairman of the Board of the Climate Institute of Washington DC 1990 - 2002, and Chairman Emeritus since 2002)
 * Honorary Vice President, Royal Geographical Society (President of the Royal Geographical Society 1990 - 1993, Vice-President 1993 - 2002, Hon Vice President 2002)
 * Earthwatch Institute: International Advisory Council
 * Patron, Population Matters
 * Advisory Group, Population and Sustainability Network
 * Co-vice President, Interact Worldwide
 * Advisory Council, LEAD International
 * Council of Management, The Ditchley Foundation
 * Editorial Advisory Board, Chinadialogue.net

Other Affiliations

 * Chairman, Gaia Society (1998 - 2001)
 * Chairman of the Gaia Special Interest Group of the Geological Society of London since 2000
 * Chairman of the International Institute for Environment and Development 1990 - 1994
 * Chairman of Earthwatch Europe 1991-1997
 * Chairman of the Advisory Committee on the Darwin Initiative for the Survival of Species 1992 - 1999
 * Chairman of the Advisory Committee on the Environment (ACE) of the International Council for Science 1999 - 2004
 * Senior Inaugural Visiting Fellow at Harvard University Center for the Environment 2002 - 2003.
 * Trustee of the Reuters Foundation 2000 -
 * Trustee of TERI Europe 2003 -
 * Chairman of the Trustees of Leadership for Environment and Development UK 2001-2005
 * Trustee of the Baring Foundation 1992 - 2002
 * Trustee of the British Museum of Natural History 1992 - 2001
 * Trustee of World Wide Fund for Nature (UK)1993 - 1999
 * Trustee of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh 1997 - 2001
 * Chairman of the Advisory Committee on the Global Future of Civil Nuclear Energy (within the Sustainable Energy Programme of the Royal Institute of International Affairs) 2000 - 2002
 * President, Education Section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 2002 - 2003
 * Senior Advisor to the Global Environment Facility in Washington DC USA 1994 - 2003
 * Vice President of Interact Worldwide (previously Population Concern) since 1990

Publications

 * Climate Change in World Affairs, with a preface by Solly Zukerman (1977, republished 1984, Harvard International Affairs Committee)

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 * Virgin Earth Challenge